And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Rameses - generally identified with Heroopolis, now the modern Abu-Keisheid (see the note at Exodus 12:37), which was probably the capital of Goshen, and, by direction of Moses, the place of rendezvous to the Israelites previous to departure (see the note at Exodus 12:37).